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Shot in the Dark · Ozzy Osbourne

EXERCISE 24 OF 39
Groove R -- Part R (a two-bar phrase)
122 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART O
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGROFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shot in the Dark on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-75, ride through bars 76-91 and hi-hat through bars 92-133.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 11-16 and 19-24, and 15 more places -- 33.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Shot in the Dark -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 9, 17, 32, 33, 41, 42 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-79 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part R -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 84-111 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Shot in the Dark?

124 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Shot in the Dark hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Shot in the Dark?

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 9, 17, 32, 33, 41, 42 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED